Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading)-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results.Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lifted Veil (Version 2) by George Eliot.George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow Sensationists, like Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone), and of some of the better known authors of Victorian era horror writings, such as Bram Stoker (Dracula) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Eliot here explores mystical themes, considering the world of phenomena which are felt but not seen. Yet in doing so she suggests that the apparent clairvoyance of her main character, Latimer, may in fact be, at least in part, psychological expressions of his early life experiences. This view is supported by the fact that most of Latimer’s vision-based predictions of how people will behave and events unfold do not, in the end, turn out as he had foretold.Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

White People by Arthur Machen.Literary critics see Arthur Machen’s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The White People is a highly influential horror story of a young girl’s discovery of ancient magic. It was written in the late 1890s as part of a longer unfinished novel, some sketches from which went into his book Ornaments in Jade. Fans of supernatural fiction often cite this story as a classic in the genre.Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Famous Impostors by Bram Stoker.Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as believable if such people had not, in reality, existed since time immemorial. In this work, the famous Bram Stoker throws light on just a few such people, who have tricked their way into the annals of history.Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Chain of Destiny by Bram Stoker.Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit his old friends Mr. and Mrs. Trevor as the Scarp estate. What begins as a warm visit with his ersatz parental figures turns into something both ominous and wonderful with the announcement by Mrs. Trevor that they are to be visited by a young Miss Fothering who Mrs. Trevor feels Frank will fall in love with almost immediately. Frank takes it all in stride until he has a terrible nightmare that evening of dreadful things to come upon Miss Fothering's arrival. Will there be a 'happily ever after' for the pair of lovebirds or will an ancient family curse finally come to bare?Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Dualists by Bram Stoker.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Primrose Path by Bram Stoker.This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments. It is Bram Stoker's first novel, being published 22 years before his famous 'Dracula'. It tells the story of a happy Irish family, the O'Sullivans, who leave their straightforward Dublin life behind to go to London, to follow Jerry O'Sullivan's dream of becoming a theatrical carpenter. With his wife, Katey, at his side, they are beset by many misfortunes. The squalor and depravity of London seep into their lives and tragedy ensues.Featured on Dracula.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Under the Sunset by Bram Stoker.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lair of the White Worm (Version 2) by Bram Stoker.This episode includes AI-generated content.